Adoption and Institutionalization

Code:

P821

Acronym:

AI

Keywords
Classification	Keyword
OFICIAL	Psychology

Instance: 2014/2015 - 2S

Active?	Yes
Responsible unit:	Psychology
Course/CS Responsible:	Integrated Master Psychology

Cycles of Study/Courses

Acronym	No. of Students	Study Plan	Curricular Years	Credits UCN	Credits ECTS	Contact hours	Total Time
MIPSI	13	Official Curricular Structure	4	-	6	54	162
		Official Curricular Structure 2012	4	-	6	54	162

Teaching language

Portuguese

Objectives

After participation in this course, students should be able to:
- Know the deprived children rights, maltreatments and their consequences;
- Know the Portuguese children and adolescents' protection system;
- Know the portuguese system of family and insitutional care system;
- Implement psychological interventions in order to promote the development and psychological adjustment of children and young people in residential care.
- Identify the indicators of quality of residential care in response to the children and adolescents ‘needs; 
- Know the legal framework of adoption and residential care in Portugal, understand the impact of cultural and historical factors and be aware of ethics;
- Identify the factors that convert adoption into a "successful natural intervention";
- Make a review of current research in the area of adoption and institutionalization, approached as "natural experiments" with impact on the developmental pathways of children and adolescents without “permanent parents”;
- Develop knowledge in the adoption field, about the impact of the beliefs and reactions of common people to the inclusion of those children and adoptive families.
- know goals and strategies to intervene in different moments of the adoption process, from assessment of skills and preparation for adoptive parenting to specialized intervention with the family in pre-and post-adoption.

 

 

 

Learning outcomes and competences

The learning outcomes of this course are:

- knowledge of the children rights, the case of maltreatment and the developmental consequences of them.

- mastery of the legal requisites of the Portuguese Care system

- mastery of the recent literature, both national and internationl, on adoption, foster and residencial care.

- mastery of skills to intervene in the adoption foster and residential care fields.

Working method

Presencial

Program

1. Deprived children rights, maltreatments and the develpmental consequences.
2. The bio-psico-ecological theoretical framework to the study of the process of care and adopcion.
3. The Portuguese legal framework to the children protection and adopción.

4. Foster and residential care: The legal framework of residential and foster care: implications on children development; Quality of residential and foster care; Psychological intervention in care contexts: to fit the needs and to promote the development and psychological adjustment of children and youth in care.
5. The adoption: Definition of Adoption from the legal, social and psychological points of view; Adoption as a "natural experiment" for the study of atypical developmental pathways; Adoption as “successful natural intervention"; The adoptive family life cycle: identification of family needs and developmental tasks; Adoptive parenting: communalities related to parenthood and adoption specificities; Adoption communication within the family

6. The psychological intervention during the adoption process: forms and contexts.

Mandatory literature

Brodzinsky, D.M. & Palacios, J. ; Psychological issues in adoption: Research and practice., Westport: Praeger, 2005
Brodzinsky David M. 340; The^psychology of adoption. ISBN: 0-19-504892-X
Amoros, P.M. & Palacios, J. ; Acogimiento familiar, Madrid: Alianza Editorial, 2004
Del Valle, J. & Fuertes, J. ; El Acogimiento residencial en la protección a la infancia, Piramide, 2000
Mccall, R., Van Ijzendoorn, M. Juffer. F., Groark, C. & Groza, V. ; Children without permanent parents: Research, practice, and policy .Monographs of the SRCD, 76 (4)., 2011
Wrobel, G.M. & Neil, E.; International advances in adoption research for practice. , Wiley-Blackwell, 2009
LOIZAGA, FELIX LATORRE ; ADOPCION HOY: NUEVOS DESAFIOS, NUEVAS ESTRATEGIAS, MENSAJERO, 2010. ISBN: 9788427131422

Teaching methods and learning activities

 

The teaching methods used are:

-       Lectures

-       Debate conducted by the professor about specific themes

-       Active methods, experiential, (e.g. role play), through which it is intended that students acquire specific skills.

-       Contact with researchers in the domain and with professionals working in institutional care and adoption services.
- research and presentation of the results and respectively discussion to a experts in the area.

keywords

Social sciences > Psychological sciences > Psychology

Evaluation Type

Distributed evaluation with final exam

Assessment Components

designation	Weight (%)
Exame	40,00
Participação presencial	0,00
Trabalho de campo	20,00
Trabalho escrito	40,00
Total:	100,00

Calculation formula of final grade

 

The evaluation of learning objectives will require:

- Final written exam (40%).

- Carrying out in group (with individual task and group tasks) a study includes the construction of a questionnaire, data collection, data analysis, literature review, and final presentation od the study (60%).